An April 2 Metro item incorrectly said that inmate Alicia Edwards's suicide occurred in the mental health unit of the D.C. jail. Corrections officials later corrected their account to say Edwards was housed on the intake tier of the jail's female housing unit.
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91 Counts for Palsy Researcher
A Montgomery County man who treated victims of facial paralysis for more than 20 years has been charged with 91 criminal counts, including practicing without a license, theft, fourth-degree sex offense and reckless endangerment.
Robert Scott Targan, 68, who worked out of Montgomery Village, was arrested Friday after indictment by a grand jury and was being held at Montgomery County Detention Center on $500,000 bail, police said. He was arrested in February and charged with four of the 91 counts.
Targan operated a group called the Bell's Palsy Research Foundation, police said. Doctors and former patients lauded his methods, which employed electrical muscular stimulation devices on the face and chest to treat an ailment that disproportionately afflicts pregnant women.
Police said Targan has neither a medical degree nor a license to practice physical therapy in Maryland. An attorney for Targan said in February that he made no false claims.
Investigators said Targan's treatment often involved placing electrodes on a patient's chest for prolonged sessions of "electrical stimulation."
Investigators also cited a patient whose credit card was charged for a missed appointment even though she had not given Targan the number and a patient who wrongly believed Targan to be a medical doctor.
-- Daniel de Vise
